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Finding the Manuals

How to Find Official U.S. Army Manuals

Official Department of Defense manuals
are U.S. Government documents, so they cannot be copyrighted.
It's just a matter of finding them.
There are some nice collections on line, but you can also
find them yourself (and find manuals not included in someone
else's collection) with some simple Google searches.

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